Collection Highlights
Minaret Turkish Cigarettes
Date:
Object Number:
PR.031.111.AMER.MIN
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Spirit of St. Louis
Object Number:
INV.11938
Date:
1927-1933
Medium:
Cotton
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. ( 38.7 x 42.5 cm )
Marks:
printed: below medallions: "NEW YORK/ PARIS/ SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS/ NEW YORK TO PARIS IN 33hr 29min/ SAN DIEGO"
printed: along selvedge: "W. McG & Co. (c)"
Description:
Cotton roller-printed textile fragment commemorating Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927; portrait of Lindbergh in a winged-garland with a cat; winged medallions of plane leaving New York in daylight, arriving in Paris in darkness, image of a plane over a globe, plane over the coast of California, and the Spirit of St. Louis; printed in maroon ink on an off-white ground.
Gallery Label:
The cat below the portrait of Lindbergh on this textile represents his kitten, Patsy, that would accompany him on flights. Patsy was not a passenger on Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, however; its stand-in was a toy doll Felix the Cat, the cartoon character.
Bibliography:
Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 to the Present (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 418.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
